Sandhu had Haryana Cong blessings

The CNN IBN's Special Investigation Team has found out that hundreds of victims across seven states paid up to Rs 2 lakh each for getting jobs in a Public Sector firm that turned out to be fake.
D K Bansal a Congress MLA from Ambala Cantonment in Haryana, a part of Union Minister of State Kumari Selja's Lok Sabha seat, could be a key person in the scam.

P S Sandhu, who floated the fake PSU, Agrofed was given respectability by Bansal.
Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja admitted to CNN IBN Special Investigation Team that Bansal introduced her to Sandhu -- an association that she now regrets, but it may be too late.

"About these people I feel very sad and responsible that I should have indirectly recommended them indirectly. It was wrong on my part," Kumari Selja says.

When confronted about his links with Sandhu, Bansal accepted that his family helped print Agrofed's stationary and open its bank account.

CNN-IBN: Did your brother print Agrofed stationery ?

Bansal: Yes he did.

CNN-IBN: Did your elder brother help in opening the bank account of Agrofed?

Bansal: He is a legal advisor. As a legal advisor he introduced that Mr Sandhu, son of so and so is known to him.

Bansal was also Sandhu's lawyer when he was jailed in a similar job fraud case
in 2003.
"I was his counsel in 2003 and that case is still pending and no evidence has been recorded," Bansal says.

The photographs of Bansal and Sandhu eating from the same plate, of Sandhu with Bansal during election campaign, and of the water coolers gifted by Sandhu reveal a cozy relationship.

"Why are you blaming me as there are other persons in the pictures," Bansal says.
He takes out some photographs and pointing towards one of the senior Congress leader says,

"Who is this person whose photograph was there? He is the Education Minister."

As a photo of Sandhu with the Haryana Minister of Education & Languages and Industrial Training & Vocational Education, Phool Chand Mullana, suggests, Sandhu was a regular at Haryana Congress meetings.

While Sandhu floated Agrofed to dupe job seekers, politicians like Kumari Selja allegedly joined in for the political mileage.

While the political linkages of the scam have not been not fully explored, the
Ambala police has cracked open the scam
"Idea was if you give say Rs 3 lakh you get job where you get salary of Rs 3000 per month," Ambala Superintendent of Police Amitabh Dillon says.

PS Sandhu could not have set up such an elaborate scam without political patronage.
But strangely while Sandhu is in jail, the truth about the politicians involved in this scam remains a mystery.